Quotes About Thought

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Piensa como un hombre de acción, actúa como un hombre de pensamiento" (Henri-Louis Berson)

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!

I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature must never be anything else but an alliance... When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature, of which we are inescapably a part.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Love dies not nor can lovers die; And though vast worlds between them lie, Th' intelligencing current thrills From each to each the thought love wills.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

A 'rant' consists of 'high sounding language unsupported by dignity of thought'.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.

Mao thought he was inscrutable you know. At least I think he did. it was hard to tell with him.

The irony is that even as digitization is making an increasing amount of information available, it is diminishing the space required for deep, concentrated thought.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

The idea that my sucker is moving through thought itself, through emotion and reason, that memories, dreams and reflections should consist of jelly, is simply too strange to understand.